Hatter girls 3rd in FCIAC golf championships

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
1:00 am EDT, Thursday, May 25, 2006

NORWALK - The Danbury High girls golf team took third at the FCIAC championships Wednesday at the Shorehaven Country Club. The Hatters (204), the two-time defending champions, finished behind Fairfield Warde (200) and first-place Staples (189).

The Hatters graduated four players from last season's team.

"After graduating four girls, this was very good," said Danbury coach
Kathy Boucher
. "Staples is undefeated and is a very good team. Our girls would have liked to have done better."

Junior
Megan Corbett
led the Hatters by shooting a 47. Corbett was followed by sophomore Kalyn Melanophy (50), senior Alex Long (52), freshman

BETHEL - All four Pomperaug High singles players are still alive in the South-West Conference boys tennis tournament at Bethel High.

Connor McNeish, the top seed at No. 2 singles, and
Mike Beatty
, the No. 3 seed at fourth singles, have both advanced to today's championship matches. Elie Bilmes, playing at No. 1 singles, and
Joe Shannon
, playing at No. 4 singles, both had their semifinal matches Wednesday suspended due to darkness and will resume play today at 3:30.

Bilmes, a senior seeded No. 2, defeated No. 3 seed
Matt Oberman
of Weston, 6-3, in the first set before their match was suspended. The winner will play the top seed,
Charles Feldman
of
Joel Barlow
, in today's final. Feldman beat Bilmes in three sets in last year's final, while Oberman beat Bilmes in straight sets two years ago in the final.

Bilmes advanced to the semifinals with an 8-1 quarterfinal victory over No. 7 seed
Drew Adamek
of New Milford.

At No. 2 singles, McNeish will play No. 2 seed Ben DaBush of Weston in a rematch of last year's championship match, in which DaBush handed McNeish his first loss of the season. McNeish advanced to the finals with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Luke Sproviero of Joel Barlow.

Shannon, the top seed at No. 3 singles as a freshman, split sets in his semifinal match against
Morgan Pinter
of Barlow, winning the first set 6-3, and losing the second, 4-6. The winner will play No. 2 seed
Seth Meltzer
of Brookfield in the final.

Beatty advanced to the finals at No. 4 singles with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Weston's
Jason Kirschenbaum

. He will play today against the winner of the suspended semifinal match between Newtown's
Mario Roehr
and Barlow's Austen Afridi.

PLAINVILLE -
Tony Patane
had two doubles, Frankie O'Brien laced a two-run single and
Bryan Hamilton
had an RBI single for New Milford in its non-league warm-up for the Class LL state tournament. J.R. Unikas pitched a complete game for the Green Wave.
New Milford (8-12) 000 003 0 - 3 6 0

NEW BRITAIN -
Edwin Alvarez
pitched a complete game and gave up only three hits to lead Abbott Tech in its final regular-season game. He had a one-hitter through five innings.

Alvarez got it done at the plate as well; he had a double and three RBIs. Bryce Bernhard and Pete Pelletier each drove in two runs and Alex Gibb and
Barry Hart
each drove in one.

After winning just two games each of the last two seasons and three the season before that, Abbott Tech won 12 games this year to qualify for the state tournament.
Abbott Tech (12-8, 10-6) 610 020 0 - 9 8 3

WASHINGTON, Conn. -
Chris Ayer
pitched a complete game for the Spartans and gave up just three hits. He struck out 10 and walked none. Shepaug had only two hits - both by
Miles Scribner
- but it was enough. Scribner doubled in the second inning and later scored on
Troy Horrigan
's sacrifice fly. Ted Alex led off the third inning for Shepaug by getting hit by a pitch.
Jeff Reisman
then laid down a sacrifice bunt and Alex came all the way around to score on a throwing error. Reisman went all the way to third, and
Kevin Horrigan
was then hit by a pitch. With runners on the corners, Shepaug ran a double-steal, and Reisman scored from third. Shepaug plays at Northwestern today.
Housatonic (9-11) 200 000 0 - 2 3 3

DANBURY - Collin McLoughlin scored nine goals and
Andrew Ross
scored seven to lead Wooster, which won four of its last six games to finish with a 7-7 record.
John Francisco
sealed the win with eight saves.
Woodhall (1-5) 5 2 2 3 - 12